Update: Drudge has a headline stating that Hillary called Dick Cheney 'Darth Vader'. Wasn't Hillary the one who decried the 'politics of personal destruction'? I guess we can add hypocrite to her ever-lengthening list of faults.

Posted by Ken McCracken · 19 September 2007 05:07 PM

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Anywhere the Rev. Al Sharpton is, you know he is playing the RACE CARD! AND Hillary is playing his Queen...

Ken,
The point is well made. Disrespecting a United States US Army General one day and then pandering to the base elements that occupy the lower strata of American intelligence and social responsibility is just breath-taking.

Just today I saw someone with a T-shirt that said "Free the Jena 6." I'm sorry to report that the "trial by race" movement, which insists that court cases must reach a verdict in favor whoever has the darker complexion, is alive and well.

Posted by: Bigfoot at September 20, 2007 08:32 AM

No way! A tee shirt?... That is ridiculous. Almost as ridiculous as OJ Simpson being out on bail. He is like the epidomy of flight risk with his past history of the Bronco being escorted down the freeway???

After looking into this matter a bit further I am beginning to think that these kids have been OVER charged. I don't believe they should be set free. BUT a potential LIFE sentence is a bit too harsh. Other circumstances prior to this incident in cases that were somewhat the same appears like the DA over charged these kids...

What is bad is that because of the public outcry and big hoofarah, these little thugs will probably be set free. IF that is the case? I certainly hope these 6 kids learn a lesson. BUT I fear they will learn that the "RACE CARD" is the way of the future to get then out of serious crimes...

I always resent these things being made into national issues for politicians to pose about. The local facts of any case are usually messier than what gets reported, because people with an agenda have an investment in situations looking pure and a proper representation of the myth they are trying to sell. I think that whenever one of those "fifth-grader suspended for (blank)" stories makes the news. We get only one side of the story, we try to fit it into a template, and the facts on the ground might be different. I work in an involuntary psychiatric hospital. Misleading stories make it to the newspapers all the time, and we cannot, because of confidentiality, correct the record.

Point of Comparison: Claims by prisoners in Gitmo. Accusations are made, and we conservatives resent it when they are taken at face value by the BBC or Daily Kos.

In this case, it does seem that the black community in this area has been targeted by racist whites - not "subtle racism" or "economic oppression," or any of those other unmeasurables, but actual violence and threats of violence. Who started it, who perpetuated it, who has worked to stop it, is very unclear at this point. What should be noted is that this is more like an episode of an ongoing feud, not a random act of thuggery.

I don't say this to excuse it. I'm neither accusing nor excusing anyone at this point. I would just caution that this does not fit a clean template.

Now that more information is in, it appears that the conclusion people wanted to jump to here is pretty much accurate. The ongoing racial fights do not seem to have had much to do with the Jena beating.
http://www.kansascity.com/sports/columnists/jason_whitlock/story/284511.html